Participate in ITEA

Key features

It is ITEA’s mission to enable businesses, with the involvement of their customers, to
create innovative solutions that master the Digital Transition and tackle the major challenges in a way
that helps to bring society forward. ITEA encourages its global Community to create impact and value
through R&D&I projects in the area of Software Innovation with the knowledge of industry and the
capability of national financing.

To ensure optimum support for the ITEA community, ITEA stands for:

Global and trusted cooperation in an industrial community

ITEA stimulates innovation projects in a global community of large industry, small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), start-ups, academia and customer organisations. ITEA’s
bottom-up project creation ensures that the project ideas are industry-driven and based on
actual customer needs. ITEA provides a trusted framework for cooperation in which standard
project collaboration agreements are available, including the complex domains of
confidentiality and intellectual property. ITEA is managed by and for industry in close
cooperation with the national public authorities.

Focus on high-quality process and support

ITEA follows a flexible and supportive approach towards its project consortia in order for
them to maximise the results of their efforts and the project’s impact. Each year,
ITEA issues one Call for projects starting with a two-day brokerage event. Each Call follows
a two-step procedure, in which industrial experts evaluate the quality of the project
proposal in terms of innovation, impact and consortium. During the project lifetime, ITEA
provides full-cycle project monitoring in a peer-to-peer mode with digital reports and
physical reviews to improve quality and value creation of projects. ITEA has an ISO
9001 certified Quality Management System (by DEKRA).

Project financing through national public and private funding

The ITEA programme is publicly funded on a national level. Each ITEA project partner can
apply for funding from their own national Public Authority. An early dialogue between
project teams and public authorities supports alignment with national priorities and the
best possible opportunities for funding that lead to high success rates.

Commercialisation of research results

ITEA enables organisations to create actual commercial results from research projects. Impact
is one of the core values in ITEA; impact on business, economy and society. Impact is
central during the project lifecycle: in proposal evaluation, monitoring, closure and in
communication of the results.

Further information on the
ITEA Call process and schedule can be found in Call process